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1、书评模板篇一:So, here it is at last: The final between Harry Potter, the Boy Who Lived, the Chosen One, the “ of hope” for both the Wizar and Muggle worlds, and Lord Voldemort, He Who Must Not Be Named, the leader of the Death Eaters and would-be ruler of all. Good Evil. Love versus Hate. The Seeker versu
2、s the Dark Lord. J. K. Rowlings monumental, spellbinding , 10 years in the making, is deeply rooted in traditional literature and Hollywood sagas from the Greek myths to Dickens and Tolkien to “Star Wars.” And true to its roots, it ends not with modernist, “Soprano”-esque equivocation, but with good
3、 old-fashioned closure: a big-screen, heart-racing, bone-chillingconfrontation and an epilogue that clearly lays out peoples fates. Getting to the finish line is not seamless the last part of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” the seventh and final book in the series, has some lumpy passages of
4、 exposition and a couple of clunky detours but the overall conclusion and its determination of the main characters story lines possess a convincing inevitability that make some of theprepublication speculation seem curiously blinkered in . With each installment, the “Potter” series has grown increas
5、ingly dark, and this volume a copy of which was purchased at a New York City store yesterday, though the book is embargoed for release until 12:01 on Saturday is no exception. While Ms. Rowlings astonishinglylimber voice still moves effortlessly between Ronsand Harrys growing solemnity, from youthfu
6、l to morephilosophical gravity, “Deathly Hallows” is, for the most part, a somber book that marks Harrys final initiation into the xxplexities and sadnesses of adulthood. From his first days at Hogwarts, the young,green-eyed boy bore the burden of his destiny as a leader, coping with the expectation
7、s and duties of his role, and in this volume he is clearly more Hey V than Prince Hal, more King Arthur than young Wart:high-spirited war games of Quidditch have given way to real war, and Harry often wishes he were not the de facto leader of the Resistance movement, shouldering terrifying responsib
8、ilities, but an ordinary teenage boy free to romance Ginny Weasley and hang out with his friends.Harry has already lost his parents, his godfather Sirius and his teacher Professor Dumbledore and in this volume, the losses mount with unnerving speed: at least a half-dozen characters we have xxe to kn
9、ow die in these pages, and many others are wounded or . Voldemort and his followers have infiltrated Hogwarts and the Ministry of Magic, creating havoc and terror in the Wizard and Muggle worlds alike, and themembers of various populations including elves, goblins and centaurs are choosing sides.No
10、wonder then that Harry often seems overwhelmed withdisillusionment and doubt in the final installment of this seven-volume bildungsroman. He continues to struggle to control his temper, and as he and Ron and Hermione search for the missing Horcruxes , he literally enters a dark wood, in which he mus
11、t do battle not only with the Death Eaters, but also with the temptations of hubris and despair.Harrys weird psychic connection with Voldemort seems to have grown stronger too, giving him clues to Voldemorts actions and whereabouts, even as it lures him ever closer to the dark side. One of the plots
12、 significant turning points concerns Harrys decision on whether to continue looking for the Horcruxes the mission assigned to him by the late Dumbledore or to pursue the Hallows, three magical objects said to make their possessor the master of Death. Harrys journey will propel him forward to a final
13、 showdown with his arch enemy, and also send him backward into the past, to the house in Godrics Hollow where his parents died, to learn about his family history and the equally mysterious history of Dumbledores family. At the same time, he will be forced to ponder the equation between andindependen
14、ce, free will and fate, and to xxe to terms with his own frailties and those of others. Indeed, ambiguities proliferate throughout “The Deathly Hallows”: we are made to see that kindly Dumbledore, Severus Snape and perhaps even the awful Muggle cousin Dudley Dursley may be more xxplicated than they
15、initially seem, that all of them, like Harry, have hidden aspects to their personalities, and that choice more than talent or predisposition matters most of all. It is Ms. Rowlings achievement in this series that she manages to make Harry both a familiar adolescent coping with the banal frustrations
16、 of school and dating and an epic hero, kin to everyone from the young King Arthur to Spider-Man and Luke Skywalker. This same magpie talent has enabled her to create a narrative that effortlessly mixes up allusions to Homer, Milton, Shakespeare and Kafka, with silly kid jokes about vomit-flavored candies, a narrative that fuses a plethora of gees into a story that could be Exhibit